The unfortunate thing about having been raised in a militarized training camp is that you wind up really bad at concealing your emotions. Athena gives him a look like that is the weirdest thing she's ever heard, though it's not. She's heard weirder.

"Where are you from that there are no cars?"

Even the shithole planet that is Pandora has cars. She guesses he could be from an even more backwater planet—there must be somewhere in the six galaxies that's worse—but he doesn't look like he'd survive somewhere like that.